A series of stabbing attacks have resulted in the deaths of three alleged Palestinian attackers and resulted in several more Israelis and Palestinians being injured as violence intensifies in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.

Writing on Twitter, Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said that four apparent stabbing incidents took place in Jerusalem on Monday.

The spokesman said a Palestinian assailant was shot dead on Monday night after stabbing an Israeli soldier on a bus entering Jerusalem. The soldier was lightly injured.  The Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Health confirmed the event on Facebook, saying that the killed man’s “identity is still unknown”.

Al Jazeera’s Andrew Simmons, reporting from West Jerusalem, said police announced later that the man was shot dead after reaching for an officer’s gun, which came out of its holster during the confrontation on the bus.